A Time Projection Chamber to Search for Feebly Interacting Bosons via Proton Induced Nuclear Reactions
Martin Sevior, Michael Baker, Lindsey Bignell, Catalina Curceanu, Jackson T. H. Dowie, Tibor Kibedi, David Jamieson, Andrew Stuchbery, Andrea Thamm, Martin White
Abstract
We propose a new Time Projection Chamber particle detector (TPC) to search for the existence of feebly-interacting bosons and to investigate the existence of the X17 boson, proposed by the ATOMKI group to explain anomalous results in the angular distributions of electron-positron pairs created in proton-induced nuclear reactions. Our design will provide 200 times greater sensitivity than ATOMKI and the program of research will also provide world-leading limits on feebly interacting bosons in the mass range of 5 - 25 MeV.